Syllabus Exchange

The Syllabus Exchange, in partnership with the Broadcast Education Association, gives educators a way to enhance their curriculum by sharing ideas and teaching materials. Our goal is to provide a database of course syllabi, assignments, exercises and other teaching materials that can be shared. Our focus is in the area of journalism, electronic media and communication studies. We welcome not only editorial-sequence syllabi but also those from related fields, such as advertising and public relations. We also welcome high school and other teachers.

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In this undergrad York College - CUNY journalism class we concentrate on writing news stories for radio and TV. We also tackle radio and TV news reporting and producing terminology and techniques as well as recording actual broadcast news reports for our campus station. The syllabus aims to teach about a quarter of the classes on-line, for that reason it is considered a hybrid class.

The course goals, philosophy, assignments and schedule for newscasts and election. Students will air a live, 3-hour election night special that will be shown state-wide on NET2, the Nebraska PBS cable system network.

Syllabus based on my original Broadcast Journalism course. After reading several proponents of "game-ified" pedagogy, I had been wanting to try something like this for a while, because students are supposedly used to playing video games and in particular to tracking their avatars' experience, life force, money, etc., which is supposedly motivating and they can relate to such progress better than to grades (?). Upon learning right before school started that Blackboard had a new feature for awarding "badges" for "Achievements" or milestones in a course, I thought the opportunity was ripe.

Basic beginner course in multicamera directing for studio production. Students have a textbook, lecture, hands-on practice, and serve as crew on real talk shows that air on the cable channel. They have original group projects at the end. Syllabus includes course policies such as dress code and professional demeanor, and breakdown of final course grade (area weights).

Syllabus for part 1 of a 2 course sequence in broadcast production. Students learn and train in a professional broadcast media environment that includes radio, television, and new media. Students will learn basic video and audio news production, commercial production, video and graphics editing, and live broadcast production.

A course I wrote and taught at Metropolitan State University of Denver. It culminated in a final practicum of having my class write, direct and produce a newscast while our department's "Performance For Broadcast" class anchored it.

A mixture of lecture (33%) and lab (67%) activities to teach students fundamentals of radio news production. Assignments range from anchor readers, cut/copy stories, voicers, wraps, features, newscasts, interviews, podcasts, multitrack mixing, announcing and industry issues and trends. NOTE: This course is designed for "learning by doing," in which the students are very busy in the practice of radio news production. Writing is taught and emphasized, as is journalistic technique, but most theory and best practices are discovered in the process and challenge of working on deadline.